As American colleges and universities are under fire for censorship and an assault on the First Amendment, an Ivy League graduate who is also a North Korea defector is speaking out against the schools as more “nuts” than the hermit nation. Yeonmi Park is one of several hundred North Korean defectors now living in the United States after transferring to Columbia University.
Park said that once she began attending classes at the elite school she was immediately alarmed by what she was learning.
According to Fox News:
“I expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy, to learn how to think. But they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think,” Park said in an interview with Fox News. “I realized, wow, this is insane. I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying.”
Those similarities include anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt and suffocating political correctness.
Park recalled a moment during orientation when she was scolded by a university staff member for enjoying the work of famous writers like Jane Austen.
“I said ‘I love those books.’ I thought it was a good thing,” recalled Park.
“Then she said, ‘Did you know those writers had a colonial mindset? They were racists and bigots and are subconsciously brainwashing you.’”
“Even North Korea is not this nuts,” she said. “North Korea was pretty crazy, but not this crazy.”
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience. God help America.
Not surprised at all…….I hope Ivy League schools die on the vine……Their time has passed…..
This exactly what the Red Scare was over in the 1950’s. The Democrat Party is anti-america and pro-communist. They constantly divide the people to cause the nation to collapse. They assault the second because it’s harder to seize power by force if the people are armed.
So refuse to disarm. Simply solution
Democrat is CATHOLIC …… R and D mean nothing. It is a thing done by CATHOLIC TRAITORS. Look south for proof…. Invade, dominate, conquer, then eliminate. (Be CATHOLIC “C” or be dead). The ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC “C” INVADERS are ALL here illegally! Pelosi, ( CATHOLIC “C” traitor) recently said that there are more than 60 million ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC “C” INVADERS in the USA. Head ’em up. Send ’em ‘home’. Vote for ANY CATHOLIC “C” and the wall will never happen. Vote for ANY CATHOLIC “C” and the ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC “C” INVADERS will never go ‘home’.
What are you actually saying? Catholics are not the enemy! Pelosi and Biden are fake Catholics— actually they are trying to subvert and change the Catholic faith to suit their own agenda.
Gee, what an embarrassment, the U.S. has a more stringent indoctrination system than N. Korea. Please, everyone, wake-up and vote these communist fools out of office any chance you get at every level of government!
We can’t until we have a fair election process.
I thought Elvis had left the building. Are you back… if so, how long this time?
Agree 100%. We need to get rid of Democra t s.
Democrat is CATHOLIC …Bideni is CATHOLIC… Pelosi is CATHOLIC.. Kerry is CATHOLIC The SCOTUS is CATHOLIC. It is almost too late.
Actually, practicing Catholics are more likely to be Republicans, or at least conservatives. It is the phony Catholics like Biden, Pelosi and Kerry that all seem to be Democrats.
Then YOU and everyone else reading this needs to run for office starting with the local school boards. Unless/until we take back our local schools, the universities will continue their brain washing and leftist indoctrination. Our children have to be educated at a young level how to think and question and that includes taking them to church and Sunday School so they can learn how dangerous these anti-God leftists/Democrats/socialists/George Soros anarchists really are!
So sad…. We do have lots of people who know better, but evil seems to be the norm and the strength in our nation these days…. We need a spiritual awakening!
okay then if the ivy league is out what government schools are any better I would as a native to my state like to know only parochialism as in private local schools or maybe Usc miss park?
Just look up the planks of the American Communist Party. They started this in the 60’s and are now finished. They have brainwashed almost every student in the Country. DON’T Believe Me! Do your own research! Look It up, it’s published and practiced in almost every school where the Teachers Union has their claws embedded.
unions public and private have also served their purpose
Unions are CATHOLIC.
EXPUNGE “ALL” SOCIALISTS MARXIST COMMUNIST PROFESSORS AND THE LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE LITERATURE THEY ARE FORCING ON OUR KIDS!!!
REINSTITUTE OUR HISTORY BOOKS AND MAKE IT MANDATORY (101) to take CIVIC COURSES ….Sing the National anthem or recite the pledge of allegiance….”’ROME’ COLLAPSED FROM WITHIN ….”
Betty
When Rome collapsed it was CATHOLIC. The whole Catholic thing is a failed cult from the middle ages. Look south of the USA see a hundred nations, all CATHOLIC an all failed forever. Vote for ANY CATHOLIC and you vote for a traitor. NO Catholic is an American, they are all Catholic traitors.
Just another part of the socialist indoctrination of America?? And the ignorant and uninformed keep electing these treasonous traitors over and over?? It’s past time for every red blooded American to oust these DemonRats from our government! 2022 is going to be a very important election and it couldn’t come soon enough.
This is what happens when so many sacrificed nothing for the Freedom they enjoy! The lesson will be long and hard.
Wow , as an outsider from America she is right. Stop these far left wing colleges.
This is truly sad.
Now we have an outspoken Chinese American mother (against CRT) and an out-spoken North Korean defector college student (cancel culture) telling our country it is going mad. WHEN will the left wake up????
The left is woke and brainwashed and has no interest or desire to wake up to your (or mine for that matter) line of thinking
And now Americans may start to understand the real reasons they voted for Trump in the first place. PC and the modern Democrat Party is totally insane! The idiology and the arguments the Democrats use come straight from the 1960s lunatics and their children, after being funded by George Soros and like-minded American billionaires. Are they doing the funding because they are stupid? NO! They want political power and they are paying the Democrat Party to get it for them.
Wow!!! we’re worse than North Korea—that is scary but who doesn’t know these
elite colleges are full of commies–not really surprising Critical thinking has been replaced
with Critical Race thinking!!
As the Left colleges are stabbing the nation in the back, they also are stabbing themselves in the foot. People are beginning to wake up and see how so very many of these goons in academic robes are educated far beyond their intelligence, wisdom and even common sense. Education does not confer wisdom and never has. I believe it was Benjamin Franklin, one of our Founding Fathers, who once said: ‘Common sense is the only kind of sense there is.’
My dad used to say that if we don’t listen we will have to feel. But these snowflakes attending these commie schools will have to feel. They stupidly believe that they will live a life of luxury with socialism. They are in for a rude awakening
There is a simple solution Take your children out of these liberal/communist schools, Universities and Colleges. Teach them Gods 10 Commandments and learn about life. Relationships, basic economics, domestic skills, practical way to make money and about basic health. Stop the brainwashing garbage
Must be bad when someone from N Korea says OUR academia is NUTs , sure is since academia wont tour No Korea etc to see Life
Yeonmi Park is a free loving American at heart. America with all her warts and scars is still the best. We are going through a painful period in our history but we will right our ship. Keep believing our Constitution, keep believing in our Bill of Rights. Free people can get turned around but we will make it right again. We the People of which you are a part.
Our colleges are rife with far left Liberalism but there is a stirring of a breeze that may become a strong wind and it is coming from the opposite direction.
By the way, The Frankfurt school of Economics is responsible for the creation of Critical Race Theory, started in Germany in the early thirties, left Germany because of Hitler, and went to Geneva, and then to the United States. There, they nested at Columbia University. Now the are back in Germany but it’s seeds rooted strongly in the colleges here. Elitists usually become buried in their own pride and virtue.
Keep believing in your mission. It is very worthwhile. Believe in America, it too is worthwhile.
The subject schools used to be elite; now they are leftist propaganda machines instead.
She need’s to defect she ass back to north Korea, she might be a spy?.
Guess what? FB says this goes against our standards. So what are those standards? Control, propaganda for Marxists, political left wing favorites, lies, denial of 1st amendment rights, Lately these are the only standards I see from them.
Ask any black immigrant from africa and they will tell you the same thing. BLM is bonkers and they should go to africa to see real racism. these school administrators, professors are all paid off dupes and need to fired and sued for teaching know lies, hell for misleading children and trying to psychologicalyharming these white kids and even the blacks